Top job! Legal Officer (Solicitor) – Grade 4
- Full time
- £45,428 – £54,166
- Hybrid: Edinburgh
- Closing 21st July 2025
Incorporation of the UNCRC into Scots law places the Commissioner at the leading edge of child rights strategic litigation. This is an incredibly exciting opportunity to influence the development of Scots law and drive real systemic improvements in children’s lives.
This pivotal role helps promote and safeguard children’s rights in accordance with the duties of the office as set out in the Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2003. Reporting to the Head of Legal, our Legal Officers (Solicitors) are responsible for the lawful and effective discharge of the Commissioner’s powers and duties.
As a key member of staff, you will exercise the Commissioner’s power to undertake investigations, and the new strategic litigation power brought in by the UNCRC (Incorporation) (Scotland) Act 2024. Working as part of the Legal Team, you will be responsible for ensuring the office achieves maximum strategic impact by undertaking swift, robust assessment and human rights analysis of cases and issues, providing advice on the most appropriate response, drafting submissions/terms of reference, carrying out investigations, instructing counsel and directly legally representing the Commissioner where appropriate.
Where required by the Commissioner or Head of Legal, you will also provide advice on and exercise the Commissioner’s statutory functions.
Alongside developing and maintaining relationships with key stakeholders, you will be expected to work directly with children and young people to gain their views and understanding on various complex rights issues, this includes working with our Young Advisers Group.
We’re looking for someone with experience of successfully undertaking litigation in a fast-paced environment, and who evidences a commitment to rights-based practice, collaborative working and the highest professional and ethical standards
Top job! Lead Solicitor – Strategic Litigation
- Full time
- £44,000
- On site: Edinburgh or Glasgow*
- Closing 13th July 2025
Are you an experienced, dynamic litigator who wants to work differently, using a child-centred approach that ensures that children and young people are kept at the heart of the process?
Are you motivated by the opportunity to play a key role in supporting Clan Childlaw deliver our vision of a Scotland where all children and young people are empowered to use their rights ? This is a fantastic opportunity for a talented lawyer, who has a strong commitment to social justice. You should have significant experience in strategic litigation, ideally within our areas of focus, but if you bring experience of and commitment to using your legal skills to improve lives then we want to hear from you .
Comprehensive training will be provided to support you in developing your knowledge and practice in our key areas, and you will be expected to obtain certification as a lawyer for children.
The role of Lead Solicitor – Strategic Litigation is an opportunity for a dynamic lawyer with a drive to shape and grow our unique child-centred legal services, increasing access to justice for children and young people across Scotland and play a key role in using strategic litigation to progress children and young people’s rights in Scotland.
About Clan Childlaw
Clan wants a Scotland where all children and young people’s rights are respected, protected, and fulfilled. For that to happen, Scotland has to be a place where all children and young people can stand up for their rights. That means children and young people need:
- Lawyers that are experts in working with children
- People around them who can enable them to use their rights and amplify their voices
- To be respected as rights-holders, who are entitled to hold duty-bearers to account if their rights are not fulfilled.
Clan is an award-winning, independent children’s charity that actively supports children and young people to take ownership of their rights. We are the only charity in Scotland that provides free, independent legal representation exclusively for children and young people, which is child-centred by design. Because our lawyers work directly with children and young people whose lives are affected by legal decisions, we bring that unique practice-based knowledge to every aspect of our work. This includes our specialist training, our helpline supporting others who help children to use their voices and their rights, and our work to influence children’s rights respecting changes to practice, policy and law.
What We Do
We stand with others who help children use their rights – Through our membership and training for legal professionals and in legal education we are making being a “children’s lawyer” an accredited legal skill set in Scotland. Our practical training and helpline and support for advocacy in Children’s Hearings provides adults that support children and young people information and guidance that they can use to empower young people to stand up for their rights.
We stand out through the excellence of our work – We want our work to have as much impact as possible. We listen to what children and young people tell us about what they need from lawyers and others who support them to use their rights. We use what we learn to develop and design the services they need and talk about why young people’s rights matter, and why children and young people need lawyers.
We stand for change – We are lawyers for children and young people representing children and young people in court, at Children’s Hearings, and in important meetings working to give them equal opportunity to heard and use their rights. We take cases that make change for individual children and young people and help shape better rights respecting policy and practice. We use our knowledge of the law, and experience as practising lawyers for children and young people, to ask decision makers and lawmakers to change the law and the way the law is used to make sure that children and young people's rights are respected, protected and fulfilled.
Our Values
Our values are the principles we uphold in all our work, no matter what. They are the foundation of our workplace culture. Everyone who works at Clan shows our values in all they do and say.
We are supportive: We listen and respond, we provide encouragement and emotional help to children and young people, to others who support young people, and to each other.
We are bold: We are confident and courageous in amplifying the voices of children and young people. We are prepared to take risks when we need to, to defend children and young people’s rights.
We are dynamic: We are always active, always progressing. We are positive, full of energy and new ideas. We ask for change where it is needed.
"I love my job at Clan. It's busy and varied and no two days are ever the same. We have a great team here and everyone is really supportive." - A member of the Clan Childlaw team
What we can offer you
Clan Childlaw’s mission is very important to us, but our people are important too. We recognise the importance of a good work-life balance and a friendly supportive work environment. We offer:
- 33 days annual leave (inclusive of public holidays) increasing to 35 after 2 years’ service
- Auto-enrolment into our pension scheme after 3 months service
- Offices in Edinburgh and Glasgow, and the option to choose the base location that works best for you.
- Flexibility around your working day, with the opportunity to work your hours within the hours of 7am to 7pm, and the option to work from home some of your working week.
- Access to our employee counselling service.
*We operate hybrid working with the opportunity to work from home some of the time. The role will also require travel between our office locations on a regular basis and throughout Scotland as required.
Learning and development is important to us and our team. We hope it’s important to you too. You will be encouraged to engage in learning and continued professional development.
"I have never worked in such a lovely organisation before! I feel valued, seen and heard as an individual here." - A member of the Clan Childlaw team
"I love my job at Clan. It's busy and varied and no two days are ever the same. We have a great team here and everyone is really supportive." - A member of the Clan Childlaw team
Top job! Training Programme Manager
- Full time
- £50,228 – £55,433
- Hybrid: Edinburgh or Glasgow
- Closing 30th June 2025
Verture is looking for a new Training Programme Manager to drive the development and delivery of our ‘Becoming Climate Resilient programme’ and wider training and skills development portfolio. We are seeking someone who is passionate about climate education, has experience in training development and delivery, and the ability to design and deliver engaging training to diverse audiences.
Amnesty International UK (AIUK) has a simple aim: an end to human rights abuses. Independent, international and influential, we campaign for justice, fairness, freedom and truth wherever they are denied. If you want to use your skills, knowledge, and experience to help fight for human rights, you could be our Advocacy Manager – Scotland. This role is temporary, fixed-term job cover available from July 2025 until mid-January 2026.
Due to the nature of this contract, the ideal candidate will be available for an immediate start.
About the role
The Nations and Regions team help us achieve our goal of protecting, defending and advancing human rights at home and around the world. The Advocacy Manager – Scotland (fixed-term cover) is accountable for Amnesty’s advocacy at the Scottish Parliament and with various Scottish Government departments. You will work with colleagues in the Nations & Regions team and our UK and international headquarters to develop and deliver advocacy strategies with MSPs, MPs in Scotland, civil servants and other government and public body officials.
More details can be found by downloading the job description from our careers portal.
The role may be for you if:
- You’re skilled and experienced in political advocacy in Scotland and can demonstrate excellent influencing skills
- You have experience of leading projects with multiple components and ability to switch between tasks and policy issues with ease.
- You have excellent knowledge of the Scottish political scene, legislative processes at Holyrood and Scottish civil society.
- You positively contribute to an inclusive culture and can work with multiple internal and external stakeholders to achieve change.
Our Commitment to you
Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Anti-Racism (IDEA) are at the core of our values. We want to be an organisation that tackles structural inequality and prejudice as well as be an actively anti-racist organisation. This means taking a meaningful and equitable approach to supporting and developing you and others during your time with us.
New colleagues receive 27 days leave annually (29 after five years), as well as bank holidays (pro rated for part time) and 3 wellbeing days. 2-5% employee pension contributions are matched at 6-9% and we offer 6 months full pay for family leave. We offer flexible working such as compressed work patterns and job shares.
Relief Support Coordinator
- Part time
- Sessional
- On site: Inverness Justice Court
- Closing 6th July 2025
Victim Support Scotland – Empowering People Affected by Crime
We put victims and witnesses at the heart of everything we do so they are heard, have improved health and well-being, feel safer, more secure, and informed and that we are an effective organisation, that makes a lasting difference.
Who We Are?
Victim Support Scotland provides support and information to people affected by crime and campaigns for victim and witness rights. Regardless of whether a crime has been reported, or when it happened, our services are free, confidential, and tailored to individuals’ needs.
- Our Vision is that people affected by crime – victims, witnesses, and their families – are treated with dignity and respect and are at the heart of the justice in Scotland.
- Our Mission is to ensure that all those affected by crime receive high quality support that will help them to recover from their experiences.
All our work is guided and underpinned by our six core principles of being engaging and compassionate; inclusive and accessible; person-centred; adaptive, flexible, and responsive; collaborative; and knowledgeable and skilled. Now is the time to join Victim Support Scotland, helping us work towards the ambitions of our 5-year plan:Empowering people affected by crime: VSS Strategy 2021-2026.
What is the role
We are recruiting for multiple Relief Support Co-ordinators to support our team across Scotland. Relief Support Co-ordinators provide cover over weekdays, evenings and weekends. Shifts are offered when they are available, but there is no obligation to accept work.
Primary location:
Inverness Justice Court, the successful candidate will be supporting service delivery across the whole Highland & Island locality, expenses will be covered.
This is an excellent opportunity to contribute to the work of VSS through helping plan service delivery which is provided by a team of skilled and knowledgeable volunteers. You will be involved in planning their deployment to ensure that the service delivered meets the desired outcomes of victims and witnesses of crime, our service users.
If you are looking for a role with a purpose, where you can really make a difference, then this may be the role for you.
What you’ll need to be successful
We are looking for people who are experienced in a similar role. You must be confident to challenge stereotyping, prejudice, discrimination, and bias. The ability to travel across the Highlands and Islands is essential and therefore a current driving licence and access to a car is required.
Further details of this role are available in the job description-Relief Support Coordinator
VSS is committed to the safeguarding and welfare of all of our service users and has a thorough and rigorous recruitment and selection process including PVG scheme checks in place to ensure this commitment is met.
What we offer?
Relief Support Co-ordinators receive an hourly rate of £15.16 per hour. Full training is provided as well as opportunities for further development. Entitled to 5.6 weeks annual leave pro rata.
As a Disability Confident Committed employer, please advise if you require any adjustments in the application process by contacting Jobs@victimsupportsco.org.uk
Please note -This post will be subject to a satisfactory PVG check.
About Us:
Glasgow Council on Alcohol (GCA) was founded in 1965 and is the oldest established Council on Alcohol in Scotland. GCA is a voluntary organisation working to reduce the harm caused by alcohol misuse through the provision of a range of high quality advice, information, counselling, support, prevention and education and training services.
Our mission is to provide evidence-based support to individuals, communities and government to improve health and wellbeing across Scotland.
The foundation of GCA is our supportive and inclusive culture for all who engage and work with us.
GCA deliver services over 6 days per week and throughout Glasgow, East Dunbartonshire and East Renfrewshire.
About the Role:
Elevate is one service with two routes to employability: Elevate Glasgow PSP and the Recovery Employability Service. This role is based within the Elevate Glasgow PSP team. The Elevate PSP team work with those in the earlier stages of their employability journey working on building up confidence, training, education and volunteering. Elevate offer a person-centred approach to individuals in their employability journey. This team are also often out in the community networking with our partners within the drug and alcohol sector.
Elevate is an employability service for people in recovery from drugs and/or alcohol. We are delighted that we are now able to extend the service to include aftercare provision for those in work to include those affected by poor mental health or have experience of homelessness or the criminal justice service as well as those in recovery.
The Employability Support Worker will make a real impact to individuals’ day to day lives as they uniquely tailor their personal development, offer emotional and practical support and set realistic goals as part of their journey to employability opportunities.
Early Years Scotland are looking for experienced Family Engagement Practitioners to join our amazing staff team delivering our services in Glasgow and surrounding areas.
Family Engagement Practitioners (FEPs) with Early Years Scotland (EYS) have a unique, exciting role within the early years sector. An EYS Family Engagement Practitioner has responsibility for providing support and promoting parental engagement and a whole family wellbeing service through the adoption of a multi-agency collaborative approach.
Our EYS staff team work together with children and families on a continual basis, across a variety of settings within communities with a focus on enriching and enhancing parental skills and capacity to improve, strengthen and maximise:
- positive attachments and relationships between parents/carers and children
- early literacy and communication skills
- shared interactions and approaches to learning
- cost-free and enriching and nurturing home learning environments
- healthy living approaches
- support for entitlements.
- meaningful transitions
You will be fully involved in shaping, developing, and evaluating the early years health programmes and innovative shared play and learning sessions you deliver.
A typical week’s activity could consist of:
- delivering a health programme to parents
- delivering Stay Play and Learn sessions incorporating health-based learning experiences.
- Working in various locations delivering community programmes
EYS will likewise invest in you, providing regular and supported professional learning and experience opportunities that will enhance your career profile, develop your skills and knowledge in creative and unique ways and inspire your practice in new and exciting ways!
Post Details
- 35 hours per week over 52 weeks per annum (part-time contracts may be available, please note this on your application when applying).
- £25,685 FTE which is point 24 on scale 24-26
- 25 days Annual Leave in the first year rising to 30 days thereafter
- 12 public holidays per annum
Salary, allowances and entitlements are pro-rata to hours worked.
Applicants’ qualifications must be consistent with those required to register as a Practitioner with SSSC, e.g:
- HNC Childhood Practice at SCQF Level 7
- SVQ Social Services (Children and Young People) at SCQF Level 7 .
- Additional ELC qualifications welcomed.
PVG Scheme membership will be required.
Family Support Worker - HMP Dumfries
- Part time
- £25,685 pro-rata
- On site: Dumfries
- Closing 27th June 2025
Join Early Years Scotland (EYS) new Family Support Service (FSS) at HMP Dumfries!
Are you a passionate, confident, and supportive individual looking to make a real difference? We are seeking a Family Support Worker to lead sessions at our new EYS FSS at HMP Dumfries.
Why This Role Matters:
Families affected by imprisonment face numerous emotional, financial, and practical challenges. They often struggle to find the support and information they need. Our EYS FSS is dedicated to transforming the visit experience for children, families, and friends by creating a welcoming and positive environment. We aim to reduce stress, build confidence, and provide comprehensive support to those whose lives are impacted by imprisonment.
Your Impact:
As a Family Support Worker, you will play a crucial role in achieving positive outcomes for families and children.
Your responsibilities will include:
Enhancing the visiting experience: Make visits to loved ones in prison more positive and less stressful.
Providing essential support: Offer independent and impartial advice, information, and support tailored to families' needs.
Advocating for families: Champion the needs of families within the prison system.
What You'll Do:
Connect positively with visitors, offering one-to-one support and valuable information.
Collaborate with community-based services to develop and enhance the service.
Work closely with Scottish Prison Service (SPS) staff to ensure a supportive and positive environment.
Receive ongoing support from the EYS Service Manager.
Why Apply?
This is your chance to make a meaningful impact on the lives of families affected by imprisonment. If you are motivated, confident, and ready to support others, we want to hear from you!
Post Details
- 17.5 hours per week over 52 weeks per annum
- Thursday – 1.30pm – 4.30pm
- Friday – 1.30pm – 4.30pm
- Saturday – 9 – 1pm
- Sunday – 9 – 1pm
- Admin work – 3 ½ hrs working from home
- £12,842 pro-rata per annum (£25,685 FTE); £14.11 per hour (Point 24 on scale 24-26)
- 25 days Annual Leave in the first year rising to 30 days thereafter
- 12 public holidays per annum
- PVG Scheme membership will be required
Salary, allowances and entitlements are pro-rata to hours worked.
There are a range of staff benefits including 5% pension contribution, access to Employee Assistance Programme, professional learning opportunities, family friendly and wellbeing policies and others.
This post is funded by the Scottish Government until 31 March 2026 (subject to continued funding).
Family Support Worker - Low Moss
- Part time
- £25,685 pro-rata
- On site: HMP Low Moss
- Closing 27th June 2025
Early Years Scotland (EYS) Family Visitor Centre at HMP Low Moss, East Dunbartonshire
We are looking for a highly motivated and supportive Family Support Worker for the Early Years Scotland Family Visitor Centre at HMP Low Moss.
Families who are affected by imprisonment face emotional, financial and practical difficulties as a result of their family member’s imprisonment and they can find it difficult to access the information and support they need to overcome these difficulties.
The EYS Family Visitor Centre improves the visits experience for families and friends. Provides independent and impartial advice, information and support to prisoners’ families, which meets their needs.
This in turn creates less stress, builds confidence and improve emotional, financial and practical support for families.
The service aims to achieve positive outcomes for imprisoned family members, children and families by fulfilling three core functions:
- improving the experience of visiting a family member or loved one in prison
- allowing families to access independent and impartial advice, information and support which meets their needs
- championing families’ needs towards the prison system
The Family Support Worker will connect positively with visitors offering information and advice and one to one support and collaborate effectively with community- based services to develop the service. They will work alongside the Centre Co- Ordinator and a Family Engagement Practitioner in order to provide a support and positive environment.
- £10,274 per annum (£25,685 FTE) which is point 24 on scale 24-26
- 25 days Annual Leave in the first year rising to 30 days thereafter
- 12 public holidays per annum
- PVG Scheme membership will be required
Salary, allowances and entitlements are pro-rata to hours worked
This post is partially funded by the Scottish Government until 31 March 2026; (subject to continued funding thereafter).
Youth Development Worker: Unmasking Masculinity
- Part time
- £30,363 pro-rata
- On site: Edinburgh
- Closing 27th June 2025
Do you want to be part of a vibrant youth work organisation and youth movement?
Do you want to work alongside young people to create meaningful social change?
Answered yes?
We want to hear from you!
The Jack Kane Community Centre is looking to recruit an experienced and innovative Youth Development Worker to lead on our new Unmasking Masculinity Project, funded through the National Lottery: Young Start.
Unmasking Masculinity is a 3 year project that will work alongside young men (11-21yrs of age), as equal partners, on the theme of positive masculinity. Through a youth-led and co-production approach, the successful applicant will work alongside young people to provide a peer prevention/education and early intervention approach to youth violence and gender stereotypes.
About us:
The Jack Kane Community Centre, is situated in the Greater Craigmillar area of North East Edinburgh. We believe that children, young people and adults are powerful agents of change and we work alongside them to ensure that they are provided with opportunities to thrive and develop their skills and talents to fulfil their potential. To achieve this, we provide a range of youth and children activities and services.